Folding suit-hanger.



Patented May 2|, |90l..

E. E. H. HEINRICH.-

FOLDING SUIT HANGER.

(Application filed Nov. 13, 1900.)

(No Model.)

INVENTOR:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERNEST EMILE HERMANN HEINRICH, OF BRUSSELS, BELGIUM.

FOLDING SUIT-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 674,557, dated. May 21,1901. Application filed November 13, 1900. Serial No. 36,360. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST EMILE HER- MANN HEINRICH, manufacturer, asubject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at 2 Rue Gillon, Brussels,in the Kingdom of Belgium, have invented a new and useful Folding Suit-I-langer; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the same. i

The object of this invention is to provide a clothes-hanger of simple,strong, and durable construction, easily handled, and self-adjustable tothe forms of coats, collars, overcoats, and the like which are adaptedto be placed thereon.

The invention consists in the improved clothes-hanger and in thecombination and arrangement of the various parts thereof, substantiallyas will be hereinafter pointed out and finally embodied in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of myimproved hanger;

and Fig. 2, a front elevation of the same, showing the hanger inpartly-folded position.

In said drawings, 61 designates a center frame, preferably formed ofbent wire and formed at its upper end with an elongated eye or loop fand having its extremities extend ing from said loop substantiallyparallel to each other and terminating the one in an eye h andthe otherin a pivot h. The loop or eye f and the pivot h extend substantially atright angles to the body portion of said frame, and

the tip of the latter is introduced into the eye h, and thereby secured.

9 represents a book, which is swiveled in a bend f, formed in the loop fand extending upwardly therefrom. Said hook serves as a means forhanging the device.

On the pivot h are fnlcrumed U-shaped arms or braces a and b, thesebraces being likewise formed of wire and each having its extremitieslooped around the pivot h.

0 denotes a flexible strap or web which passes through the eye or loop fand Whose extremities are'secured to the extremities of the U-shapedarms or frames at and h. Stitching may be employed to secure the ends ofthe said web or strap to the arms.

In Fig. 1 are shown in dotted lines the outlines of a portion of a coatplaced in position on the hanger, and it can be seen from said figureand will also be manifest to those familiar with the art that theflexible strap or Web adjusts itself to the form of the coat.

The device can be readily folded together and can thus be convenientlycarried around, occupying very little space.

The clothes-hanger has been described as being made of wire; but it willbe manifest that other suitable material can be used without deviatingfrom the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is v A clothes-hanger consisting of a centralfra'me,'an eye on one end of said frame and at right angles thereto, twoarms or braces fulcrumed to the other .end of said central frame andextending in opposite directions therefrom, a flexible strap passingthrough the eye and secured with its free ends to the free ends of saidbraces, and a swivel-hook arranged on the eye, all said partssubstantially as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

ERNEST EMILE HERMANN HEINRICH.

Witnesses:

E. BORGHAUS, P. PoHLnY'.

